HESI LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND
1. What are Nurse Practice Acts? ANS >> Laws that control the practice of nursing in
each state.
2. How does the Nurse Practice Act govern a nurses ability to make assign-
ments? ANS >> 1. Assignments should take into consideration the nurses
education and experience level
2. The nurse should supervise the care given by nursing personnel for which they
are administratively responsible.
3. Sterile or invasive procedures should be assigned to or supervised by a registered
nurse.
3. What is a tort? ANS >> And act involving injury to another resulting in civil
rather than criminal liability
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, 4. What are the 2 unintentional torts? ANS >> negligence and malpractice
5. How do negligence and malpractice differ? ANS >> Negligence is
performing an act that a reasonible and prudent person would not perform while
malpractice is negligence in a professional context, that is to say, professional
misconduct
6. What are the 4 elements necessary to prove negligence or malpractice?
ANS >> 1. Duty
2. Breech of duty
3. Injury/ damages
4. Causation- a connection between the act and the injury
7. What are the intentional torts? ANS >> Assault and
Battery False imprisonment
Exposure of a person
Defamation
Fraud
Presenting false credentials
Describing a myth regarding treatment
8. True of False ANS >> Persons declared incompetent have the legal status
of a minor? ANS >> True- They cannot vote, drive, sue or be sued, make contracts
or wills, or hold professional licensure.
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1. What are Nurse Practice Acts? ANS >> Laws that control the practice of nursing in
each state.
2. How does the Nurse Practice Act govern a nurses ability to make assign-
ments? ANS >> 1. Assignments should take into consideration the nurses
education and experience level
2. The nurse should supervise the care given by nursing personnel for which they
are administratively responsible.
3. Sterile or invasive procedures should be assigned to or supervised by a registered
nurse.
3. What is a tort? ANS >> And act involving injury to another resulting in civil
rather than criminal liability
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, 4. What are the 2 unintentional torts? ANS >> negligence and malpractice
5. How do negligence and malpractice differ? ANS >> Negligence is
performing an act that a reasonible and prudent person would not perform while
malpractice is negligence in a professional context, that is to say, professional
misconduct
6. What are the 4 elements necessary to prove negligence or malpractice?
ANS >> 1. Duty
2. Breech of duty
3. Injury/ damages
4. Causation- a connection between the act and the injury
7. What are the intentional torts? ANS >> Assault and
Battery False imprisonment
Exposure of a person
Defamation
Fraud
Presenting false credentials
Describing a myth regarding treatment
8. True of False ANS >> Persons declared incompetent have the legal status
of a minor? ANS >> True- They cannot vote, drive, sue or be sued, make contracts
or wills, or hold professional licensure.
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